Not as bad, however, as the “Sent from my iPhone / BlackBerry / Droid” footers—one wonders whom these senders think gives even a flying thingy what it was sent from?
(Yes, I know a lot of people just don’t know how to turn this off, but stupidity is the only universal capital crime.)
Most of the email footers I see are from the workplace, especially if the sender works for the gubmint. I think they is supposed to discourage people from using the accounts for personal use. Yeah, right.
A legal disclaimer related to professional advice, client confidentiality etcetera while ubiquitous is not invalid or without utility in North American jurisdictions. An analogy would be the disclaimer/wiaver on the back of an event ticket. Will it hold up for everything it purports when everyopne knows that no one bothers to look at them? Probably not. It does not mean it has no value. There is a substantive difference when one attempts to exploit or misuse information in an email that may have been misdirected to the recipient. Does it absolve the sender of liability for misdirecting the message? No. Since it was sent to you by mistake are you free to exploit or misuse the information in it without consequence? Um, no.
The ones that look bad are business relations who send business email from a yahoo, hotmail or aol email addy with the advert fooeter. This makes you look like a sketchy fly-by-night clown. Stop it.
I keep that signature active. I generally delete it when answering emails from friends, but I use it when I’m in the car responding to work requests. I don’t want to rudely point out to anybody that I’m decidedly not in the office, but it’s fine by me if my phone does.
Annoying is a massive understatement. A friend of mine keeps prefacing all his remarks to me with “When you get a grown-up phone...” To which I respond “Mine is grown-up. It’s so grown up it’s an antique.”
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